Narrow Door
Scripture
Luke 13:22-30
Reflection
Dear sisters and brothers,
There are many people in the world who ask the right questions.
There are many people in the world who ask the wrong questions.
What does it really make a right question?
What does it make a wrong question?
We know for sure that they are very different from each other.
The right question is based on personal growth.
The right question is based on personal transformation.
The right question is always based on personal life.
In today’s scripture text, a person asks Jesus a question: "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?"
Is he asking about himself or someone else?
The answer that Jesus gives has nothing to do with the question that was asked of him.
What is the answer of Jesus to him?
The answer of Jesus was intimate, personal, and, at the same time, salvific in nature.
Why do I say that?
Entering the narrow gate means having an unnoticed path, doing God’s will, and journeying towards salvation.
It is not easy for anyone.
Because having a world path, a famous path, or a popular path is easy.
In other words, we can say that living a worldly life is easy as long as you are noticed like Pharisees and Sadducees.
Taking a narrow path needs a disciplined, God-fearing attitude.
It needs more of an intimate relationship with God.
Otherwise, it is difficult to push through a narrow door.
It becomes an easy path when we have the company of God with us.
It becomes an easy path when we have an intimate relationship with God.
It becomes an easy path when we have a friendship with God.
Jesus categorically answers that salvation is possible when we take a step towards God.
In turn, God takes 100 steps towards us to redeem us from this world.
That is why Jesus says that the last becomes the first.
A narrow door, an unnoticed door, becomes wide open when God enters our lives.
However, the question is: Am I ready for it?
May the heart of Jesus live in the hearts of all. Amen.
